Blender Tutorial:

• Speaker:
  
• enjoyed his enthusiam and the obvious mentoring from his father
  

Scala Tutorial:

• Speaker: Dean Wampler
  
• Really informative overview of Scala.
  
• Notes
  
  • Type inference
    
  • Concise
    
    • No boilerplate
      
    • User defined factory methods
      
  • Templated classes
    
  • Objects as Functions
    
    • And vice versa
      
  • Classes:
    
    • fields are private by default
      
    • var keyword generates getters and setters (uniform access principle)
      
    • case classes provide helpers for structural classes
      
  • Traits:
    
    • Interface + optional Implementation
      
    • Templatable
      
    • Construction time mixin of traits using with keyword
      
    • Traits in Scala are order dependent
      
  • object = singleton class
    
    • constructed at the definition
      
  • misc
    
    • Unit ~~ Void
      
  • Akka scala actor library